WORKERS were making part of a Coventry city centre walkway roof safe after a pane of glass fell and shattered on the ground.

Luckily no one was injured when the glass fell from the covered walkway in Smithford Way, part of West Orchards Shopping Centre, on Tuesday afternoon.

The pane fell about 15ft before smashing on the floor below.

Cathy Tennant, duty manager at West Orchards, said: “We just had a report over the radio saying some of the glass had gone in Smithford Way.

“We are in talks with the health and safety team to try and determine the cause. It has now been made safe.”

She added checks will be carried out on the rest of the walkway.

Graham White, who was shopping in the area at the time, said: “It was a complete pane, a complete piece of glass. It just shattered all over the place. All you heard were the screams of the people as they moved out of the way as the glass hit the floor.”